Norwich City manager Alex Neil was delighted with his team’s 6-1 demolition of Coventry City in the second round of the EFL Cup but felt "it was always going to be tough" for the Sky Blues as they were taught a lesson by the Canaries young guns.

Kyle Lafferty opened the scoring for the Championship promotion hopefuls, with Sergi Canos adding a second, before Ruben Lameiras pulled one back for the Sky Blues at the beginning of the second half.

Norwich then upped a gear, and responded in a ruthless manner, with four goals in the last half an hour, courtesy of captain Russell Martin, former Sky Blue Jacob Murphy, Canos and Ben Godfrey.

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Ex-Sky Blue winger Jacob Murphy had a productive evening, scoring against his former club, and he had a few kind words to say to Tony Mowbray, who helped the youngster develop his game last season.

He said: “My loan spell with Coventry was majorly important, I had to learn a lot of off-the-ball stuff and it’s come good for me. I played 40 plus games, which helped my development, and I’ve now pushed on.

“There wasn’t much I could say, but it was nice to catch up with them. They won’t be too happy about the result, but business is business.”

Norwich City travel to Birmingham City on Saturday, looking to push themselves to the top of the Championship table, whereas the Sky Blues face unbeaten Northampton Town at home, and are no doubt hoping to pick up their first league win of the campaign.